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Re: The flat earth notion
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 13:42 EST
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 13:42 EST
In regard to the puzzle Herbert has set for us (and in the same spirit, I think) does anyone know where the whirling dervishes were trying to go? Herbert wrote: "On a spheroidal earth, if you proceed on a rhumb line with constant speed, you will arrive at a pole after a finite time. You won't be able to stop your vessel at this very moment, because of your inertia. This raises the puzzling question: Where will you be a second after you will have passed through the pole?" Bruce
